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Artist captures Broomfield pride in abstract water color

'Hometown Pride' picked as 2014 Broomfield Days poster

By Kimberli Turner

For the Enterprise

Posted:
07/30/2014 06:40:52 AM MDT

Updated:
07/30/2014 02:28:00 PM MDT

POSTER CONTENDERS: Broomfield Council on Arts and Humanities board member Kristin Bueb on Tuesday night looks over the eight entries submitted for the annual Broomfield Days poster contest. 'Hometown Pride,' by Jill Riggin, bottom center, was named the winner (Photo by Kimberli Turner / For the Enterprise)

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For information on ordering a Broomfield Days poster in advance of the Sept. 20 celebration at Midway Park, call the Broomfield Council on the Arts and Humanities at 303-460-6800.

The theme for this year's Broomfield Days poster contest was abstract, and an abstract piece of art won.

"Small Town Friendly, Large Town Opportunity," was the inspiration from which six artists drew to create the work they thought best reflected Broomfield.

The annual contest, sponsored by the Broomfield Council on the Arts and Humanities, was open to anyone and garnered eight pieces of art from five Broomfield artists and one Boulder artist. The featured pieces also included oil, acrylic, water color, ink and collage.

"This year the theme was a little more abstract than in years past," said BCAH board member Kristin Bueb. "It's always great to see what artists come up with and they use a totally different material (from each other)."

Nonprofit BCAH hosted a reception to announce the first- and second-place winners and to recognize all of the 2014 artists at the Brunner Farmhouse Tuesday night. The art was judged by BCAH board members.

Jill Riggin, vice president of the Broomfield Art Guild, took first place for "Hometown Pride," a water color and ink piece that incorporated many well-known landmarks around the city. Riggin could not be reached Tuesday night after her work was picked as the poster contest winner.

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"We love that she included the 1stBank Center, the (Rocky Mountain Metropolitan) airport, The Bay (Aquatic Park) slide, public art and the Brunner Farmhouse," said BCAH office manager Cindy Edgar. "Jill really met the theme which was really tough."

"Hometown Pride" will be used as the official Broomfield Days poster and can be purchased during the event Sept. 20, with proceeds benefiting nonprofit BCAH.

WINNING WORK: 'Hometown Pride' by Jill Riggin was picked as the 2014 Broomfield Days poster. (Photo by Kimberli Turner / For the Enterprise)

"I like tradition and to me, the Broomfield Days poster is a tradition. Broomfield is very meaningful to me, it's our hometown. We gotta celebrate," Bunetta said.

Riggin's pride for her city is apparent in the vibrant painting that features overlapping images in bright hues that also depicts a mother and child, a bicyclist and even a coyote.

The poster contest was originally sponsored by Joe and Carol Dankey before BCAH became sponsors in 2008.

Gail Lukens was the first poster winner under BCAH's watch and was the first and only artist since that year to sell out of 100 prints made from her pastel that was created from a photograph she captured that summer.

"It was of a summer shower like this one," she recalled Tuesday night during the reception, gesturing toward the evening sprinkles, "and there were kids splashing at the library and I started taking pictures."

Lukens took second place Tuesday night for her painting, "Broomfield, the jazzy place to work, play and live."

The 2014 entries will be displayed in the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library starting Friday, and can be seen through the month of August. The artists include Riggin, Lukens, Sandra Latino, Kathryn Wagner, Andrea Wallace and Anicee .

"It's always great to see the turnout, everyone loves it," Bueb said. It's definitely something we have fun with every year."

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